At a conference in Portugal, day 1

I’m in the small town of Celorico da Beira, for the the first Encontro e Prova Internacional de Vinho. It’s a wine conference.

Celorico is on the fringes of the Serra d’Estrela on the edge of the Dao region, where it meets the Beira Interior.

The conference is being held in a gymnasium, which has been nicely transformed, but which is really cold. This morning’s talks were not really interesting to me, but it will get better from here onwards.